Provisioning manager for optimizing selection of available resources

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-10-09
INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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To date, however, provisioning solutions have tended to treat like-type resources as homogenous.

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[0018]Generally speaking, the present invention contemplates a system and method for provisioning resources in a data processing network. The provisioning mechanism according to the present invention includes determining the optimal resource from a pool of available resources. When a provisioning request is generated, either automatically or by a system administrator, a provisioning manager evaluates the characteristics of available resources according to the needs specified in the provisioning request. The provisioning manager identifies the available resource having the characteristics most suitable to fulfill the provisioning request. In this implementation, the provisioning manager views each available resources in terms of its unique characteristics and matches available resources to each need accordingly.

[0019]Turning to the drawings, FIG. 1 is a diagram of selected elements of a data processing network 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention. In the depicted ...

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A method and software for fulfilling a resource request in a data processing network includes specifying characteristics of the requested resource responsive to detecting the resource request. A set of attributes is then derived from the specified characteristics. The specified characteristics indicate broad or general properties of the needed resource while the derived attributes preferably indicate the hardware and software components of a resource ideally suited to fulfill the resource request. Attribute information associated an available resource is then evaluated against the attributes derived from the specified characteristics. An available resource is then selected, based on the evaluation, to satisfy the resource request. The attributes of the selected resource best match the attributes derived from the specified characteristics. The requested resource may be a server resource and specifying the characteristics of the requested resource may includes specifying a server type from a constrained set of server types.

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BACKGROUND[0001]1. Field of the Present Invention[0002]The present invention is in the field of data processing networks and, more particularly, data processing networks in which resources from a / pool of available resources are allocated as needed.[0003]2. History of Related Art[0004]In the field of information technology (IT), provisioning is an increasingly important concept. Provisioning, as the term is used in this disclosure, refers to functionality that enables an environment such as a data center to allocate IT resources as they are needed. In a fully automated provisioning implementation, a data center may respond to variations in load by allocating and deallocating servers to a particular server cluster.[0005]A web server cluster, for example, may require more servers during peak demand periods (such as when consumers are likely to be accessing the cluster) while a database server cluster may be configured to execute the bulk of its tasks at other times. In this scenario, p...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F15/173
CPCH04L67/1008H04L67/1002H04L67/1029H04L67/1001
Inventor AGGARWAL, VIJAY KUMARBACHMANN, DAVID WERNERHARDOON, UZILAWTON, CRAIG M.PEKOWSKI, RAYMOND P.PETERS, CHRISTOPHER ANDREWRAMACHANDRAN, PUTHUKODE G.ULLMANN, LORIN EVANWHITFIELD, JOHN PATRICK
Owner INT BUSINESS MASCH CORP
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